1-4, Church End
1-4, Church End, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114282
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4, Church End
- Statutory Address:
- 1-4, Church End, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114282
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4, Church End
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-4, Church End, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1-4, Church End, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kempston Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01528 47941
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 26 April 2021 to update name and address, correct date of construction, add references to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 04 NW
11/206
KEMPSTON RURAL
CHURCH END
No 1-4 (consecutive)
(Formerly listed a No 1-4 (consecutive) Church End Cottages)
13.7.64
II
Range of houses dendrochronologically dated to 1485 or soon after, with later alterations. Red brick ground floor, timber-framed first floor now mainly rendered in colourwashed roughcast. Two storeys and attics. Clay tile roof. South side has two gabled dormers. Eight first floor casements with glazing bars, mainly of three-lights. Four ground floor casements of same style have cambered relieving arches. Right hand elliptically headed archway through to churchyard. North elevation has some leaded casements.
Listing NGR: TL0152847941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edis, J, The Late Medieval Origins of the Town House at Kempton Church End in Bedfordshire Archaeology, Vol. 24, (2001), 76-80
Other
Dendrochronological Analysis of Oak Timbers from 1-4 Church End, Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. Tree-Ring Services Report: MKCE/02/21, Dr Andy Moir
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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